Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
Carl Jung
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- Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
- We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.